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The M:N threading stack cleanup machinery tries to call MADV_FREE on the native thread's stack, and calls rb_bug if it fails. Unfortunately, there's no way to distinguish between "You passed bad parameters to madvise" and "MADV_FREE is not supported on the kernel you are running on"; both cases just return EINVAL. This means that if you have a Ruby on a system that was built on a system with MADV_FREE and run it on a system without it, you get a crash in nt_free_stack. I ran into this because rr actually emulates MADV_FREE by just returning EINVAL and pretending it's not supported (since it can otherwise introduce nondeterministic behaviour). So if you run bootstraptest/test_ractor.rb under rr, you get this crash. I think we should just get rid of the error handling here; freeing memory like this is strictly optional anyway. [Bug #20632]
What is Ruby?
Ruby is an interpreted object-oriented programming language often used for web development. It also offers many scripting features to process plain text and serialized files, or manage system tasks. It is simple, straightforward, and extensible.
Features of Ruby
- Simple Syntax
- Normal Object-oriented Features (e.g. class, method calls)
- Advanced Object-oriented Features (e.g. mix-in, singleton-method)
- Operator Overloading
- Exception Handling
- Iterators and Closures
- Garbage Collection
- Dynamic Loading of Object Files (on some architectures)
- Highly Portable (works on many Unix-like/POSIX compatible platforms as well as Windows, macOS, etc.) cf. https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/maintainers_md.html#label-Platform+Maintainers
How to get Ruby
For a complete list of ways to install Ruby, including using third-party tools like rvm, see:
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/
You can download release packages and the snapshot of the repository. If you want to download whole versions of Ruby, please visit https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/releases/.
Download with Git
The mirror of the Ruby source tree can be checked out with the following command:
$ git clone https://github.com/ruby/ruby.git
There are some other branches under development. Try the following command to see the list of branches:
$ git ls-remote https://github.com/ruby/ruby.git
You may also want to use https://git.ruby-lang.org/ruby.git (actual master of Ruby source) if you are a committer.
How to build
See Building Ruby
Ruby home page
Documentation
Mailing list
There is a mailing list to discuss Ruby. To subscribe to this list, please send the following phrase:
join
in the mail subject (not body) to the address ruby-talk-request@ml.ruby-lang.org.
Copying
See the file COPYING.
Feedback
Questions about the Ruby language can be asked on the Ruby-Talk mailing list or on websites like https://stackoverflow.com.
Bugs should be reported at https://bugs.ruby-lang.org. Read "Reporting Issues" for more information.
Contributing
See "Contributing to Ruby", which includes setup and build instructions.
The Author
Ruby was originally designed and developed by Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz) in 1995.